I'm trying to locate a (protest?) song from 60s/70s.

You’re going to have to be a lot more specific than that. It could be anything from Johnny Cash’s I’ve Been Everywhere to The Beach Boys’ Surfin’ USA.

The narration (the spoken part) is something like (example):
...Nevada 2500 miles….Virginia 3000 miles….Oklahoma 2000 miles… etc.
– or -
...Nevada 350000 people….Virginia 400000 people….Oklahoma 375000 people… etc.
I think it was a protest song (anti nuclear, anti-war?), but I could be wrong.
I don’t think the artist is as famous as Johnny Cash or Beach Boys.

This is a long shot; might it be 500 Miles?

City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie?

Since you remember it as a protest song, it would help if you could tell us what was being protested.

Good guess birdie!

I would walk 500 Miles ?
Here’s a list of 50 Protest songs Is it here?

Not a protest song at all (except against the Interstate Freeway system):

Route 66

If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way, take the highway, that’s the best.
Get your kicks on Route 66.

It winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles all the way,
Get your kicks on Route 66.

Now you go through Saint Louie,
And Joplin, Missouri,
And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty, you’ll see…
Amarillo…
Gallup, New Mexico,
Flagstaff, Arizona,
Don’t forget Winona,
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino.

Won’t you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip?
Get your kicks on Route 66.

Won’t you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip?
Get your kicks on Route 66…
Get your kicks on Route 66…
Get your kicks on Route 66!

So I’m waiting for the OP to come back and give some feedback.

“City of New Orleans” was my first thought to, except it doesn’t quite fit.

I cut my musical teeth singing protest songs. I’m familiar with all the songs listed above, but they don’t quite fit the description of the OP. It sounds vaguely familiar, but I too need a little more info to wake that 50-year-old memory.

Yes, but the OP wasn’t sure it was a protest song so I’m waiting to hear more unless he or she has left the building.

Was it April 29, 1992?
It’s definitely not country or from the 60s/70s but it’s narrated, lists American cities and has some numbers in it, too.

@dxs link broken

@zenvelo it is more existential than that, the video does not even exist. spooky music here

Found it!
“A Summer Prayer For Peace” by The Archies.
Thanks for all your input.

3 billion people in 1970? Damn!

A Summer Prayer for Peace is certainly a beautiful song, and it would definitely be considered a protest song. I was completely thrown off for a number of reasons: First (and this is my own prejudice), my idea of a protest song would be something like Country Joe McDonald’s I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag, or Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind, as performed here by Peter, Paul and Mary.

The Archies were a fictional group created in a production studio as part of a story line of Archie comics. Their main genre, known as “bubblegum pop”, was not very popular with people in my circles, because it seemed the music was created produced and manufactured for record sales rather than artistic merit, much like the recent pop-idols, One Direction.